(WASHINGTON) – The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation today criticized the North Korean announcement of a rocket test as a “clear violation” of previous agreements.
Strategic revelation
by John Isaacs Executive Director John Isaacs discusses the AP leak of cutting our nuclear force over at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His piece, “Strategic Revelation” was published February 23, 2012. One of the time-honored traditions for influencing debates in Washington, DC, is to leak confidential information to the press. The Pentagon Papers, […]
Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force
by Robert G. Gard Lt. General Gard’s op-ed “Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force” was originally published in The Hill’sCongress Blog on February 22, 2012. In To End All Wars, his excellent history of World War I, author Adam Hochschild recounts how passionately some strategists defended the perceived essential role of the horse […]
The Dawn of Nuclear Sanity?
by John Isaacs There are signs that nuclear sanity is slowly gaining a foothold. Proposals are being considered by the Obama Administration that could pave the way for deep cuts in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons. Despite howls of protest from the Jack D. Rippers of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop […]
Rep. Turner vs. the Budget Control Act: More Nukes is Good Nukes
by Kingston Reif Rep. Michael Turner’s (R-OH) love affair with nuclear weapons continues. His national security raison d’être appears to be to protect at all costs spending on an excessively large nuclear arsenal ill-suited to the current threat environment and oppose common sense, bipartisan steps such as the New START treaty that begin to put […]
